Phoodle vs ContraBee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Phoodle
A daily word puzzle game for food enthusiasts. Guess a 5-letter food-related word within six tries. Enable notifications to receive a daily reminder to play and maintain your streak.
- Daily food-themed word puzzles
- 6 guesses per puzzle
- Streak tracking
- Daily reminder notifications
- 5-letter word guessing
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Phoodle is the ultimate word game for food lovers! Enjoy a daily puzzle where you have 6 tries to guess a 5-letter food-related word. Keep your streak going by turning on notifications for a daily reminder to play Phoodle. A new puzzle awaits you every day at midnight!
ContraBee
This app offers a daily word puzzle using the same letter hive as the New York Times Spelling Bee. It challenges players to find words without using the required center letter, encouraging a different approach to word discovery.
- Daily word puzzles
- Uses NYT Spelling Bee letter hive
- Excludes center letter
- Encourages alternative word finding
- Unique puzzle twist
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ContraBee is a complement to each day’s official New York Times Spelling Bee. It uses the same hive as each day’s Spelling Bee, but with a twist: Instead of requiring the center letter, Contra Bee excludes it. You’ll be surprised at how many words you can find if you turn your mind upside down.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ContraBee at every 2 weeks against Phoodle's every 5 weeks. ContraBee also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Phoodle against 4.0 for ContraBee. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 20% of Phoodle's written reviews are positive against 24% of ContraBee's.
Phoodle ships an update every 5 weeks, ContraBee every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phoodle | ContraBee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (11 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 23.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Julie Loria | Lexi Games LLC |
Customer experience
Phoodle
ContraBee
In-app purchases
Phoodle
No in-app purchases
ContraBee
No in-app purchases
